Hyperolius mosaicus Perret, 1959

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Hyperoliinae > Genus: Hyperolius > Species: Hyperolius mosaicus

Hyperolius mosaicus Perret, 1959, Rev. Suisse Zool., 66: 716. Holotype: MHNG 965.12, by original designation. Type locality: "Ngam, Sangmelina, Cameroun".

Common Names

South Cameroon Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 67).

Mosaic Reed Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 196).

Distribution

Eastern part of southern Cameroon and adjacent northern Gabon; presumably to be found in Equatorial Guinea and northern Rep. Congo.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon, Gabon

Likely/Controversially Present: Congo, Republic of the, Equatorial Guinea

Comment

Considered a synonym of Hyperolius acutirostris by Perret, 1962 "1961", Rech. Études Cameroun., 1: 91, and Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 408, but subsequently considered a distinct species by Perret, 1975, Rev. Suisse Zool., 82: 191. Amiet, 1980, Rev. Suisse Zool., 87: 458, compared this species to Hyperolius acutirostris and Hyperolius endjami. Gabon record by Lötters, Gossmann, Obame, and Böhme, 2001, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 23: 29. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 137–138, provided a brief account and map. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 219–224. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 216, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 25, summarized the literature for Gabon.  Dehling and Sinsch, 2019, Zool. Anz., 280: 65–77, placed this species, along with Hyperolius ocellatus in their "Central African Forest species" group, close to the Hyperolius cinnamomeoventris group. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 196–197, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 145, excluded this as a member of the Equatorial Guinea fauna.

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